![]() Johnson was - we can say was now - a creature born from chaos, thrust to power by the same inchoate demands for political revolution that are roiling every western democracy. More from this author On the frontline with the Right Sector militia ![]() That he survived so long, and won such a parliamentary mandate for total change, is a reflection not on his personal qualities, about which no one ever had any doubt, but on the sheer disgust the vast majority of the country feels for his political enemies. With a historic majority in parliament, Johnson had almost unlimited power to drive through the Meiji Restoration our collapsing country so desperately requires. The people wanted him to break our failing state, and rebuild it in a way that finally worked for all the nation. It is the failings for which he is now condemned - the contempt in which he held Westminster’s institutions, his urge to override the sterile norms and petty taboos which have sunk British governance into a tar-pit of torpor and incapacity - which won him office in the first place. Long presented as a threat to Westminster’s hallowed traditions, the charge against him is in truth far graver: if he is the best leader our political system can throw up, almost any other system of governance would seem an improvement. Never the quasi-fascist wrecker of the constitution our more hysterical liberal commentariat still make him out to be, he was, as the phrase has it, simply a messy bitch who lives for drama, brought to these humiliating depths by the penumbra of chaos he carries swirling around him. No one in living memory can have squandered such a far-reaching and revolutionary mandate for reform through such petty and absurd personal failings. None of the accusations against him - his constant lies, his disregard for Westminster conventions - would matter in the slightest if he were just competent, but he is not. There simply is no case for Boris, no justification for any continued role in public life. Pity the poor columnist attempting to write The Case for Boris: a blank screen sits before him, the cursor blinking helplessly.
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